That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right. Henry George More Quotes by Henry George More Quotes From Henry George Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. Henry George povertyhellsociety The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor. Henry George amountentrepreneurpossession He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages. Henry George honestygivingmen The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act. Henry George peoplethinking I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school. Henry George homeschoolthinking Everybody works but the vacant lot Henry George vacant I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies. Henry George envypowerfulself How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it. Henry George squaresmencountry He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. Henry George truthasking There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself. Henry George titlesdoemen The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. Henry George politicalorganizationphilosophy Abolish all taxation save that upon land values. Henry George abolishtaxationland The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. Henry George politicalimaginationphilosophy It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Henry George libertarian-partyreligiousmen How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars? Henry George million-dollarsdollarsmen A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. Henry George admirablevery-good It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Henry George wagesbusinessworld Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man. Henry George sunshinecreativemen What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government. Henry George consciousnessgovernmentbody Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Henry George imagineinfluencemen
